Masticator.



PATENTBD MAR. 27, 1906.

' H. LAURENT.

MASTICATOR. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10. 190a UNITED s'rn'rns PATENToFFIoE. I

HENRI LAURENT, or PARIS, F ANCE.

MASTIGATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. March 10, 1903.Serial No. 147,113.

Patented March 27, 1906.-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRI LAURENT, a citizen of the French Republic,residing at 148 Rue Lecourbe, Paris, France, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Masticators; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved masticator or device for cuttingfood into small pieces and disintegrating the same by crush-.

ing for the purpose of facilitating digestion; and it consists ofanumber of parallel cuttingblades provided with projections or pyramidalpoints with square edges and a socket of handle. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation; Fig. 2, a plan;Fig. ,3, a section 4 through A B; Fig. 4, a section through D.

The food to be disintegrated-generally meat-is held by means of a forkand cut in various directions by the cutting plates or blades, whichpass between the prongs of the fork. The food thus cut up is thencrushed by being pressed-under the projections b, the square edges ofwhich effect the work of disin tegration.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device for useat table for cutting and disintegrating food adaptedto replace the. ordinary table-knife, consisting of parallelcurvedcutting-blades adapted to cut the food into small pieces, a solid partor shank formed at the roots of the blades, and projections with squareedges formed on the shankand adapted to effect the crushing of the outfood.

' 2. A device for use at table for cutting and disintegrating foodadapted to replace the ordinary table-knife, consisting of parallelcurved cutting-blades adapted to cut the food into small pieces, a solidpart or shank formed 'at the roots of the blades, projections withsquare edges formed on the shank and adapted to eflect the crushing ofthe out food, .and a' detachable handle, substantially as described. Intestimony whereof I have afiiXed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRI LAURENT.

Witnesses: JOHN K. GowDY. AUGUSTUS E. INGRAM

